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Drupal Websites

Drupal is OSU's solution to website hosting. CWS uses custom themes created for OSU to build websites and we even help teach you to manage your content.

Services

The majority of Drupal services are free for OSU departments and organizations. Included are:

Drupal Sites

Drupal sites at the College or high level administrative unit are free. Other sites are created as subsites under their sponsoring organization. Standalone sites below the College level are available for an annual hosting fee.

OSU branded theme

We currently support the Doug Fir theme.

Contributed and Custom Modules

Training

Training

Classes

CWS offers hands on classes for staff, faculty and students working on OSU websites. This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about Drupal and ask questions.

Documentation & Help

Drupal Deep Dive provides step-by-step instructions on some of the common Drupal tasks.

Service Availability

Training & Resources

CWS Drupal Blog

Central Web Services is continuously making improvements to our Drupal platform. We’re fixing bugs, updating modules, adding new features, and enhancing existing features. For the past 3 years we have been on roughly a six week release cycle. If there were important security updates it could be shorter, but frequently it was longer. We want… Continue reading →Read full story.

As we’ve been talking to people about consolidating Drupal sites into larger sites in Drupal 7, questions come up about how to set up navigation for a much larger site. With academic units the navigation breaks down nicely along the lines of colleges, schools, departments, and programs, but with administrative units it is not always… Continue reading →Read full story.